Oxfam has joined the tax just debate in the UK. In a new blog Chris Johnes, Director of its UK Poverty Programme has said: Against
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No one likes an angry poet – especially Starbucks
I’m one of those weird people who reads poetry, for pleasure. Honest: I can’t write it for toffee, so it doesn’t appear on this blog,
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The New Putney Debates: I’m speaking at Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London tonight
I am speaking as part of the New Putney Debates this evening. Details are: Thursday 8 November Venue: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1
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Incredibly timely: Tax Justice Focus features Transfer Pricing
The latest edition of TJN’s quarterly newsletter, Tax Justice Focus, is available for download here. Guest edited by TJN Senior Adviser, David Spencer, this edition
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The BBC has a duty to offer expertise – even if it’s from 54 year old men
Since I’m in the Daily Mail this morning I suppose I’d better mention the story here. The Mail picked up on some tweets I wrote
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Time for Scotland to stop buying from tax dodging companies
I was pleased to get this press release this afternoon: UNISON Scotland today urged the Scottish Government to ban companies involved in tax dodging from
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Want to hide your money? It’s all too easy
Find out how easy it is for criminals, dictators and ordinary people to set up anonymous companies to hide their cash and avoid paying any
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In Greece just a little tax justice has been done
I am delighted that Kostas Vaxevanis has been found not guilty in his trial in Greece where he was accused of breaking data privacy laws by publishing the names in
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HMRC says “don’t blame us for tax avoidance by multinationals: we’re only playing by the rules”
HMRC, by some strange coincidence, published a briefing last week called ‘Taxing the profits of multinational businesses’. There’s a copy here. It’s truly appalling. This is the best they
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